American Song Recital: Works of Bernstein, Hundley, Bowles & Other Composers

American art song American art song has a color and an appeal all its own. Departing from the constraints of late nineteenth-century European traditions to draw from elements of American culture including folk music, jazz, and Broadway composers of American art song have created a large body of literature over the last century that has won great popularity with singers and audiences alike. While requiring the same vocal gifts demanded by Strauss and Wolf, there is an ease to this genre (abetted, perhaps, by the accessibility of texts in English) that may trick listeners into thinking they are not hearing lieder

Art Song - Linking Poetry and Music

Paul Bowles

Prelude II - song and lyrics by George Gershwin, Lauren Wagner, Fred Weldy

Lori Laitman, Composer - Recordings

Lucia Swarts - Vivaldi: Six Cello Sonatas: lyrics and songs

Paul Bowles

Main Street USA

Leonard Bernstein's music: 10 best works by the American maestro - Classic FM

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Capriccio - Symphony of Psalms

Countermelody Countermelody is devoted to the glories of the human voice raised in song.

Christmas 101 - Spirited String Quartets – Album par Lauren Wagner & The Magic String Quartet – Apple Music

James Dixon to Leonard Bernstein, March 6, 1963

Come Ready and See Me